Taking a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of climate change over the years. Jon Stewart talks climate change denialism in the U.S. Congress. Jordan Klepper investigates Trump's war on climate science. Roy Wood Jr. asks, what's wrong with our brains that we can't understand the climate threat? Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng insist that climate change actually is real. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: Why is a march necessary for climate awareness?
Now, you may be thinking, do we really need a march to raise awareness about global climate change? I mean, it's an accepted scientific phenomenon pretty much everywhere. Here's why you need the march. It's accepted pretty much everywhere, but there's one place called the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. This is true.
Chapter 2: What happened at the House Committee on Science hearing?
Last week, they held a hearing that they apparently recorded in 1971... I guess that's the technology part of the committee name. On President Obama's plan to shrink carbon emissions 30% by 2030, the hearing's Sisyphus, Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren charged with the impossible task of pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain.
Of course, like any avalanche, it began rather innocuously. Texas Republican Steve Stockman.
The lead scientist at NASA said this. He said that what ended the ice age was global wobbling. Is the wobbling of the Earth included in any of your modelings? And the answer was no. When you have a model and you say we're going to leave out the most important impact of that model out of our theory and not talk about global wobbling, how can you make projections?
Chapter 3: What is global wobbling and why is it relevant?
What's up, scientists? Global wobbling, bitches! He sees your so-called global warming and raises you a global wobbling. Explain that, Dr. Whitehouse.
Global wobbling, which refers to changes in the Earth's tilt and orbit, takes place on characteristic timescales of 22,000 years, 44,000 years, and 100,000 years. It is very slow. Global wobbling is a tiny effect on the timescale of 100 years in which we try to run these models.
I didn't know we'd be talking to an actual scientist.
All right, Holdren, you aced the wobble warming. Riddle me this.
At what point a level of CO2 does CO2 become damaging? At what level does it become harmful to human beings?
Boom! How can CO2 levels be dangerous when I can still breathe?
Vice Chairman Rohrabacher, I always enjoy my interactions with you.
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Chapter 4: How does CO2 affect human health?
Much in the way one enjoys playing peek-a-boo with a baby or perhaps teasing a cat with a laser pointer.
Chapter 5: What are the risks of ignoring climate data?
I have to say with respect, that's a red herring. We are not interested in carbon dioxide concentrations because of their direct effect on human health. We're interested in them because of their effect on the world's climate. And climate change has effects on human health.
Well, then let me ask you again, why can we still breathe? That's what I'm asking. I mean, you can hear me, right? We're breathing.
Chapter 6: How is Trump's administration affecting climate change policies?
And it got more amazing as it went. Indiana's Larry Bouchon.
It's not about affecting the global temperature and climate change. There's public comments out there that that question has been asked and answered saying no.
You should look at the scientific literature rather than the public comments.
With all due respect, Representative Bouchon, I suggest you get the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology as opposed to the YouTube comment feed of Obama Lies 1776. But here's where Bouchon gives away the game.
Of all the climatologists whose career depends on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles, yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
I do not believe the scientists because it is their profession, not their hobby. Well, since we're talking about the influence money might have on climate change opinion, it turns out Representative Bouchon's three biggest campaign donors are Murray Energy, Koch Enterprises, and Peabody Energy.
And trust me, trust me, those three well-funded companies would love to disprove climate change to the satisfaction of the scientific community at large. So if scientists could be bought, these motherf***ers would have already made it rain in nerd town. Trust me. And again, I cannot stress this enough. This is the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
How long will it take for the sea level to rise two feet? I mean, think about it. If your ice cube melts in your glass, it doesn't overflow. It's displacement. I mean, this is the thing, some of the things that they're talking about mathematically and scientifically don't make sense.
Are you f***ing kidding me? Are you f***ing kidding me? I don't even know... I don't even know what to do with that. How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology caught up? Do we have to break out the paper mache and the baking soda so you can make a volcano? Is that what we have to do?
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Chapter 7: What actions are being taken to preserve climate data?
Do you understand?
Wait a minute. Global warming giant towels. Ultimately, the whole incredible and by all appearances willful misunderstanding of how the scientific method has been applied to climate change models and the effects of warming can be, pardon the pun, boiled down to this exchange.
you know, is really appalling to me to use medical information to scare parents that their children about asthma attacks and scare people saying they're going to have heart attacks. I would argue that we should all on both sides of this discussion avoid scare tactics.
First of all, there aren't both sides to a discussion. But he's basically saying it is unfair to talk to us about the scientific or medical consequences of our actions because they're scary. And we really don't feel like doing anything about it anyway. So from now on, why not agree that science and the oil industry both have opinions?
Oh, and before you tell your kids to wash their hands after they take so they don't spread disease, maybe we should also spend an equal amount of time hearing from Big Fecal. We'll be right back.
Trump's America isn't just attacking immigrants, the transgender, and apprentice ratings. It's also planning to take out climate change debt. Luckily, an underground movement is trying to stop it. My first contact in this group is waiting at an undisclosed location. Score. As I descended into her secret bunker, I could practically smell the Pulitzer. Or maybe that was urine. This place was creepy.
It was... Okay, this was taking too long. What's the situation on the ground?
All references to climate change are gone from the White House website. Trump has a war against facts.
So maybe we should hide them in a place it wouldn't look like in an intelligence briefing.
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